Prater Violet

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853287

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Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Prater Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. It is a stinging satirical novel about the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie Prater Violet, which, ironically, counterpoints the tragic events on the world stage as Hitler's lengthening shadow falls over the real Vienna of the thirties. At its center are vivid portraits of the mocking genius Friedrich Bergmann, the imperious, dazzlingly witty Austrian director, and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter-the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood. When it first appeared in 1945, Prater Violet caused a fury of critical speculation and acclaim. Edmund Wilson called it "a deliberate historical parable," and Diana Trilling's Nation review said, "Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time... It is a book written in the author's own person, yet utterly without ego; it is a novel about movie writers which is yet a novel about the life of every serious artist; it is a book without a political moral, but a profound moral-political statement; it is gay, witty, sophisticated, but wholly responsible.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015066712244

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Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Author : Paul Piazza
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231513585

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Christopher Isherwood

Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570034036

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Christopher Isherwood by David Garrett Izzo Pdf

The first thorough examination of Isherwood's work and life in twenty years, Izzo's analysis brings into play the Mortmere stories, by Isherwood and Edward Upward (dating from the 1920s but published only in 1994), and the Diaries, 1939-1960, published in 1996, to reposition Isherwood within a circle of British writers that included - besides Upward - W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Cecil Day Lewis.

Author : Laura Marcus,Peter Nicholls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521820774

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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature by Laura Marcus,Peter Nicholls Pdf

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Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853331

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Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Consisting of four accounts of encounters with four male characters, each of them visited by a different Christopher Isherwood, and each set in a different time and place—Berlin in the 1920s (overlapping the time period of the Berlin Stories), the Greek Isles in the early 1930s, London in the late 1930s and California in 1940—this acclaimed novel explores Isherwood's fundamental concerns with the choice of a way of life, and its implications for love, sex, spirituality and self-fulfillment. Published in 1959, when Isherwood had already become something of a literary rock star, Down There on a Visit is a very funny but also sad and deeply personal book that charts Isherwood's life of carnal indulgence and his first interlude with what would become a serious involvement with Eastern mysticism.

Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786480005

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Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia by David Garrett Izzo Pdf

This comprehensive and accessible reference work serves Isherwood scholars who need quick access to people, places, novels, stories, essays and plays, introduces Isherwood to those who know little of him, expands the knowledge of the literate general reader, and refreshes teachers of literature with Isherwood details. Entries on Isherwood’s most influential friends, including W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley and Stephen Spender, are significant. Included are all of the monumental “roles” Isherwood exemplified during his life—writer, rebel, gay-activist hero, and proud exponent of the Eastern philosophy known as Vedanta.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578064082

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Conversations with Christopher Isherwood by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

To many readers Christopher Isherwood means Berlin. The author of Goodbye to Berlin (1939), the British Isherwood found fame through the adaptation of that work into the stage play and film I Am a Camera and then into the stage musical and film Cabaret. Throughout his career he was a keen observer, always seemingly in the right place at the right time. Whether in Berlin in the 1930s or in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, Isherwood (1904--86) reflected on his life and his world and wrote perceptive commentary on contemporary European and American history and culture. His ties to California made him more American than British. "I have spent half my life in the United States," he said. "Los Angeles is a great place for feeling at home because everybody's from someplace else." Isherwood can be credited for helping make L.A. an acceptable setting for serious fiction, paving the way for John Rechy, Joan Didion, Paul Monette, and Bernard Cooper, among others. The interviews in this volume--two of which have never before been published--stretch over a period of forty years. They address a wide range of topics, including the importance of diary-keeping to his life and work; the interplay between fiction and autobiography; his turning from Christianity to Hinduism; his circle of friends, including W. H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, and E. M. Forster; several important places in his life--Berlin, England, and California; and his homosexual identity. These interviews are substantive, smart, and insightful, allowing the author to discuss his approach to writing of both fiction and nonfiction. "More and more," he explains, "writing is appearing to me as a kind of self-analysis, a finding-out of something about myself and about the past and about what life is like, as far as I'm concerned: who I am, who these people are, what it's all about." This emphasis on self-discovery comes as no surprise from a writer who mined his own diaries and experiences for inspiration. As an interviewee, Isherwood is introspective, thoughtful, and humorous. James J. Berg is the program director for the Center for Teaching and Learning, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. Chris Freeman is an assistant professor of English at St. John's University. Berg and Freeman are editors of The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood, which was a finalist for the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Studies.

Author : Lisa M. Schwerdt,Linda Davis Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349199860

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Isherwood's Fiction by Lisa M. Schwerdt,Linda Davis Taylor Pdf

An examination of the changing relationship between the writer and his protagonists, exploring how Isherwood's fiction achieves artistic integration and literary significance only when it reflects his personal concerns through theme and technique as he experiments with new narrative strategies.

Author : Jamie M. Carr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135520649

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Queer Times by Jamie M. Carr Pdf

This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on the aesthetic, social, and historical politics of the 1930s in his novels Prater Violet (1945), The World in the Evening (1954), and Down There on a Visit (1962), and in his memoir, Christopher and His Kind: 1929–1939 (1976).

Author : Elana Shapira,Daniela Finzi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030517878

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Freud and the Émigré by Elana Shapira,Daniela Finzi Pdf

This book reconsiders standard narratives regarding Austrian émigrés and exiles to Britain by addressing the seminal role of Sigmund Freud and his writings, and the critical part played by his contemporaries, in the construction of a method promoting humanized relations between individual and society and subjectivity and culture. This anthology presents groundbreaking examples of the manners in which well-known personalities including psychoanalysts Anna Freud and Ernst Kris, sociologist Marie Jahoda, authors Stefan Zweig and Hilde Spiel, film director Berthold Viertel, architect Ernst Freud, and artist Oskar Kokoschka, achieved a greater impact, and contributed to the broadening of British and global cultures, through constructing a psychologically effective language and activating their émigré networks. They advanced a visionary Viennese tradition through political and social engagements and through promoting humanistic perspectives in their scientific, educational and artistic works.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Verso
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1859843832

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Unacknowledged Legislation by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Hitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by a close engagement with a broad sweep of novelists.

Author : Isaac Rosenfeld
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814318800

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Preserving the Hunger by Isaac Rosenfeld Pdf

Isaac Rosenfeld, who died in 1956 at the age of thirty-eight, was a brilliant and original writer whose work has unfortunately become unavailable to anyone but the scholar. A gifted member of a gifted generation, his writings shine with the hard light of a burning and troubled intelligence. Though Rosenfeld was a man quintessentially of his era, grappling with issues and books that may no longer engage us, his writing remains fresh because of his commitment to striking deep and remaining open to experience, with all the risks entailed thereby. In the contemporary climate of academic thought, we are badly in need of teachers like Rosenfeld who read books no differently than they conduct their lives--with the belief that the world of the phrase can do more than make a point or strike a pose, but rather can, through intensity, poise, and grace, give meaning to life.

Author : Carolyn D. Wallin
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0932807488

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Elisha Wallen by Carolyn D. Wallin Pdf

Tracing the Wallen lineage back to 17th century England, this chronicle—compiled after the author spent more than 15 years, traveled many miles, and visited numerous courthouses and cemeteries—presents the monumental lineage of Walden(s), Waldin, Walding, Waldon, Waldron, Walen, Wallen, Wallin, Walling(s), Walwin, and Walwyn, and more than 1,100 other surnames.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853348

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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge—but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices. When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider.